Written by

Jessica Alaimo
Staff writer

When Marc Baxter went to downstate to help Superstorm Sandy victims, one of his hosts was a mutt named Buckets.

Buckets lives at the Freeport firehouse, and belonged to the firefighters . Freeport is a village on Long Island, and is one of the areas hit hardest by the storm. This was where Baxter and five other North Greece firefighters were deployed .

On Sunday, Baxter walked into the North Greece Fire Department Training Facility lugging a giant bag of dog food over his shoulder, and added it to a pile of other supplies for dogs and cats. He and other members of the squad were there to collect food, ...